Listing domains for sale at Dan.com provides domain investors with a mature, feature-packed marketplace.
Since GoDaddy took ownership last summer, Dan.com released two updates—the good news—and raised its fees from 9% to 15%—the bad news.
When a potential buyer engages on Dan.com via the contact form to make an offer, some of them behave badly.
What constitutes bad behavior on Dan.com? Here are some examples:
- Placing exuberant or otherwise fake offers in the millions of dollars, such as $99,999,999, for domains that aren’t really that outstanding
- Contacting the seller with a profanity-laden name that it’s obviously fake
- Making claims, threats, or providing other content that harasses the seller via the contact form
All these are valid reasons for Dan.com support to block and ban the offending accounts.
Dan.com provides the ability to potential buyers to unsubscribe themselves from future communications. Unlike the Uni Market, the seller doesn’t have the ability to block or unsubscribe contacts and such behavior must be reported to Dan.com support.
Perhaps the next release of Dan.com should incorporate such an option to remove and block offensive or threatening offers from future exchange, without having to contact the support team.
It’s a platform whose days are numbered, godaddy has the tools to stop this but they won’t because they want everyone to switch to afternic. Sure they will do incremental changes to make it look like they are working on dan but I assure you they are already figuring out how to integrate it so tightly with afternic that in they end you may as well list there.
So no, the days of dan innovation are over, no registrar service unless you consider godaddy, no parking unless its go daddy, (give bodis the boot). No cheaper commission unless you point nameservers to godaddy. No No No…. get the point
Dan is as dead as uniregistry and the funny part is we all know it, deep down inside nobody is fooled!!!
The reason why GD bought DAN and UNi is to kill the competitors . It is not about innovation.
Are there any new innovations within GD/Afternic(useless name) ? The only innovation is raise the prices!!